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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 785-804Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s40095-021-00463-4
Keywords
Solar chimney; Earth-air heat exchanger; Natural ventilation; HVAC; Renewable energy; Passive cooling
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This article investigates the cooling and ventilating performance of a passive cooling system using numerical simulations. The system, comprised of a vertical solar chimney with fins and an earth-air heat exchanger, is designed to provide alternative ventilation and air-conditioning in a hot and arid climate. The study examines the geometric parameters of the system and identifies the optimum geometry for different day times. The findings indicate that the system effectively meets ventilation requirements and significantly reduces energy consumption.
In this article, cooling and ventilating performance of the passive cooling system is investigated numerically. This system consists of a novel vertical solar chimney with fins and an earth-air heat exchanger to work as an alternative ventilation, and air-conditioning system during the summer in a hot and arid climate (Yazd, Iran). In this study, the RNG K - epsilon turbulence model was utilized to simulate the internal fluid flow. Geometric parameters of the solar chimney such as its height, diameter, number of fins, the depth, length, and diameter of the Earth-air heat exchanger 's pipes were studied. The optimum geometry performance during different day times is also investigated numerically by ANSYS Fluent 18.2 on the hottest day of the year. Given the numerical study, the optimum geometry consists of (a) solar chimney with 6 m height, 1 m diameter, and 3 fins, and (b) Earth-air heat exchanger's pipes with 7 m depth, 360 m length, and 0.2 m diameter. The best performance for the hottest day of the year reached at 14:00 when the indoor temperature experienced 295.07 K, solar chimney and Earth-air heat exchanger outlet temperature was 306.18 and 288.18 K, respectively. Besides, this system satisfied the ventilation requirements for laboratories and residential sectors and was able to save 85% of energy consumption at the best performance point.
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